Oddly, the snakes may have compensating benefits if they reduce wild hog, armadillo, and feral cat populations — all of those being new species that have had detrimental effects on the local ecology. Trapping and suppression strategies against boas and pythons using scent lures nevertheless seem possible in concept and likely to be developed.
You know, we suddenly seem to have a LOT of loose cats in our neighborhood. I don’t know if they are feral or just house cats let run loose. In fact, I noticed all across the country this summer when we took our trip herds of cats were common. I have never seen so many. Maybe not enough pythons.
If we could just train the pythons to eat Melaleuca trees.